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Yes, clearly worse than the events the likes of Nancy Pelosi and other rotten to the core democrats have hosted, in which government workers were used as props... And paid with TAX DOLLARS.
It would be just as disgraceful if a Democrat had a campaign stop at a government facility and the workers therein were told attendance was mandatory and they were threatened with termination if they didn't attend.
Please link to where this has happened, as your post reads as if this were a noted fact.
The miners have a union. I'm sure the union would act on anything "forced" although if they were getting paid while attending no one may balk at all.
That's absurd.
A mandatory gathering or else is what this sounded like.
How many of those people pictured were willard supporters? 5%??
unless the S.S. went thru screening miners to find willard supporters and 0 dissenters.
which is probablt how it went, and were paid extra to just be seen with willard.
At a campaign rally that Romney held in Ohio, with a backdrop of miners, the miners were there because they were forced to be there, unpaid. And believe it or not, it seems that forcing workers to attend campaign rallys unpaid "could be" illegal
This should be a criminal violation of both labor laws and election laws and we shouldn't have to ask if it is
Yes, clearly worse than the events the likes of Nancy Pelosi and other rotten to the core democrats have hosted, in which government workers were used as props... And paid with TAX DOLLARS.
Ah, so their attendance was mandatory? I look forward to evidence from one of the members of the fact-free posse.
It would be just as disgraceful if a Democrat had a campaign stop at a government facility and the workers therein were told attendance was mandatory and they were threatened with termination if they didn't attend.
Please link to where this has happened, as your post reads as if this were a noted fact.
You're right, I did assume here. I just read a few more articles on this and none of them mention a union.
This was between mgmt and the employees.
Sounds like they might have a case if they have something in writing. Emotions won't carry much weight in court. "I feel like I might get fired."
Mgmt says that nobody was forced to attend while the workers said they were.
What the hell do they need it in writing for? Employees don't get stuff in writing from the boss. They're saying it was mandatory but not forced. What the hell is the difference. And they don't need ANY emotions. All that's needed is that they were forced to be there and they weren't paid
Even funnier - Rob Moore, CFO of Murray Energy Company, which owns the mine, said, "Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."
Mandatory, but no one forced to attend. I wonder if Rob knows what the word "mandatory" means. Or perhaps he meant that no one was physically bound, gagged and propped up.
The president of our company used to have republicans running for local office at our company all the time to come and speak. We were paid for attending and there was certainly no pressure applied. We were free to attend or not.
That's also against the law, paying them to attend political rallies. In fact one the the mine company's amazingly idiotic and absurd and just simply mind boggling excuses for why the miners were forced to attend without pay was that it was against the law to pay them to attend
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